What is the land area and population of Suriname?

Take 20 18 as an example. Suriname has a land area of164,000 square kilometers and a population of 597,000.

1, Suriname is located in the north of South America. It borders French Guiana in the east, Brazil in the south, Guyana in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the north. The land area is 6.5438+0.64 million square kilometers (including 6.5438+0.7 million square kilometers disputed with Guyana).

2.597 million yuan (20 18). Among them, Indians account for 33%, Creoles for 3 1%, Indonesians for 15%, jungle blacks for 10%, Indians for 4%, Chinese for 3%, whites for 1%, and other races for 3%. Dutch is the official language and Surinamese is also widely used. 42% of the residents believe in Christianity, 20% in Hinduism and 65,438+03% in Islam.

Among Surinamese, Creoles (descendants of blacks and their hybrids) account for one third, mainly engaged in civil and freelance work and business. Believe in Protestantism.

Indian descendants account for 37%, and Indonesians (mainly Javanese) account for 15%. Most of these two groups live in rural areas, mainly farming, and believe in Hinduism and Islam respectively. Black people account for 10%. They fled into the jungle in the middle of 65,438+09 century because of their resistance to slavery. They are often called "jungle blacks" and have little contact with the outside world. They still retain the traditional customs of Africa, mainly agriculture and fishing.

Indians, accounting for 2%, are divided into the southern branch (Arawak and Caribbean) and the northern branch (Vaiana and Trio), engaged in nomadic, fishing and slash-and-burn agriculture. Chinese account for 2%, mainly doing business. Europeans (mainly Dutch), Jews and Lebanese each account for 1%.

Due to historical and social reasons, all ethnic groups still retain their own languages, religions, cultural patterns, costumes and customs, but ethnic relations are relatively harmonious.

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